Max Read

The unemployment rate has dipped below 8 percent for the first time since 2009 — evidence of a slow, but steady recovery? Or evidence that hundreds of thousands of unemployed Democrats gathered together to lie about being employed?

Everyone should gather around and be quiet, because we're witnessing one of God's miracles: the birth of a conspiracy theory. And former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is its St. Paul (or its John the Baptist?):

The conservatives on Twitter join a proud tradition of questioning the BLS statistics, a proud tradition dating back to Richard Nixon. But you know what Nixon would've done if he thought the numbers were juked? Richard Nixon would've appointed an agency Jew-counter. Hopefully Big Journalism and the Daily Caller are up for the job.